Authors : Amjad Hussein and Ruqayah Mohammed
Abstract: Assess the quality of 10 kinds of imported water and 5 domestic varieties of bottled drinking water during the first half of 2017 in the city of Samawah, Iraq and the results compared with the attributes of bottled drinking water issued by the Saudi Arabian Standards Organization standards for the lack of standard special Iraqi drinking bottled water. Evaluation criteria included the physical and chemical the following: pH, turbidity, total dissolved solids, total hardness, calcium, magnesium, sodium, fluoride, nitrates, sulfates, chlorides, iron, manganese. Results showing that the levels of water quality standards of domestic and imported brands were identical to different specifications with the exception of dissolved solids in the category of one domestic and one imported brand and fluoride in all varieties and types of domestic importers. Measurements also revealing explosives that have been selected for each item of different types of variation in the values of water standards explosives with rates ranging from 0-35% for domestic brand and 0-100% for imported brand and the values of most of the criteria listed on the packaging does not reflect the actual content of the water bombs.
Amjad Hussein and Ruqayah Mohammed, 2019. The Quality of Drinking Water Bottled Domestic and Imported in Iraq. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 14: 10572-10578.